Editors: Bella Gutterman and Nina Springer-Aharoni
Yisrael Kaplan | Editor: Zeev W. Mankowitz
Editor-in-Chief: Guy Miron; Co-editor: Shlomit Shulhani
Written and Illustrated by Bedřich Fritta
Miriam Offer
A last few words to honor you, the Jewish doctors. What canI tell you, my beloved colleagues and companions in misery? You are a part of all of us. Slavery, hunger, deportation, thosedeath figures in our ghetto were also your legacy. And you byyour work could give the henchman the answer Non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die. (Dr. Israel Milejkowski, Director, Judenrat Health Department in the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1942)
White Coats in the Ghetto narrates the struggle of the Jews to survive in the Warsaw ghetto while also preserving their humanity during the Holocaust. Based on a vast quantity of official and personal documents, it describes the elaborate medical system that the Jews established in the ghetto to cope with the lethal conditions imposed on them by the Nazis, and the tragic ethical dilemmas that the medical teams confronted under German occupation.